Would anyone like to read through Acts with me?

[carlos123]

Hi everyone,

I have recently started reading the Word again after a time of being away from the Lord and find myself having a hard time being consistent with my reading. In the reading that I have done I have also been left with my many questions that I want to discuss with other committed Christians that we might seek the Lord for answers to.

I thought of discussing these questions in public on the forum but it has been my experience that too often threads get hijacked by one's and taken in a direction the ends up causing hurt feelings, misunderstandings, judgements, and the like preventing us from getting what the Lord might want us to see out of our discussion.

So...I am looking for a brother or two that might be willing to read the book of Acts together with me and to interact back and forth in a daily email to discuss what we are reading. With a view to learning from the Lord together.

I don't need a brother to teach me per se. Nor do I need a theologian to enlighten me. What I am looking for are brothers who recognize their need for God, who acknowledge their own failings, and who want to truly and sincerely sit at the feet of Christ and learn from Him through His word. As we read and pray over what we read together.

Such a discussion would also help me, and perhaps others, to be faithful to read every day and might give us some daily, as opposed to once a week on Sunday, fellowship. Who knows we might even become Internet friends .

Anyway if anyone is interested please reply on this thread and we can work out the details before we start "conversing" back and forth through email.

I am primarily interested in seeking the Lord with others who are humble of heart and letting Him teach us as we read and discuss what He has to say together.

Thanks.

Carlos

[Guest ChosenByHim]

Hey I know I'm new but I just started reading through the book of acts and would love to do that. So I am definitly willing.

[carlos123]

Hi ChosenbyHim .

Hey I know I'm new but I just started reading through the book of acts and would love to do that. So I am definitly willing.

Thanks for your willingness to do this with me ChosenbyHim. That's very encouraging. However....and PLEASE don't take this the wrong way...I am looking to do this with a brother or two (as in male members).

Given that I am married and given the very real possiblility that deep friendships could begin to form as we discuss things and as the Lord draws our hearts together I am not sure that it would be a good idea for me to do this with sisters in the Lord.

Let me know if you think differently ChosenbyHim but I'm not sure I feel comfortable entering into this kind of discussion with you through personal email back and forth every day.

I suppose it could be done if there were several that wanted to do this with us where we could then do a sort of email list to each other. Problem is, and I don't really know how to get around this with any group, is how to keep out those that might just want to argue or else those who might not have humble hearts. Teachable and willing to learn before the Lord.

With one on one emails to each other it's no problem. If someone is revealed to be a person who is not teachable or willing to learn from the Lord then we can just stop emailing that person or set up a diferent temporary email address (if they persist in emaling us) but with a group all emailing to each other it's a bit more difficult to do that without cutting everyone else off too.

Many "Christians" seem to have bigger heads than hearts and I would not want to enter into heartfelt discussions with such. Nothing wrong with using our heads mind you. It's just that when we use our heads and not our hearts we grow insenstive to God and somewhat unresponsive to what He may want us to learn from Him. Making it tougher on others when we must work our way through the intellectualism that one's may put greater than neccessary stock in.

I'm open to suggestions if anyone wants to share any. Acts is a great book and there is much there that I think the Lord would want for us to be open to but I am trying to figure out a way to discuss this with others on a daily basis that does not involve opening up a forum thread to do it (opening it up to the whole world and leading almost inevitably to a less profitable discussion than it could be).

Carlos

PS. I wish there were more men as teachable and as attuned to God as readily as sisters seem to be sometimes. Sisters in general seem to be more sensitive to God in terms of wanting to do things that will draw them closer to God than men seem as ready to do. Perhaps it goes with the more relational nature of women. I don't know .

Edited December 13, 2004 by carlos123